:00:00. > :00:09.Tonight at Ten - a key NHS commitment in England
:00:10. > :00:11.might be modified - as accident and emergency
:00:12. > :00:13.departments come under intense pressure.
:00:14. > :00:17.Demand over Christmas was unprecedented -
:00:18. > :00:19.ministers say that being seen within four hours might be
:00:20. > :00:21.restricted to the most serious A cases.
:00:22. > :00:24.It is clear we need to have an honest discussion with the public
:00:25. > :00:29.about the purpose of A departments.
:00:30. > :00:32.But doctors are warning that bigger budgets are needed to free up space
:00:33. > :00:39.We need money in order to allow patients who are fit to be
:00:40. > :00:42.discharged from hospital, back into the community.
:00:43. > :00:44.We'll be reporting on the latest pressures -
:00:45. > :00:52.Theresa May makes the case for a shared society -
:00:53. > :00:54.and promises more helps for mental health services.
:00:55. > :00:56.The political crisis deepens in Northern Ireland -
:00:57. > :01:02.as Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness resigns as Deputy First Minister.
:01:03. > :01:04.A warning that many local newspapers could be forced to close -
:01:05. > :01:08.if new proposals on press regulation become law.
:01:09. > :01:10.And, Donald Trump's mocking of disability -
:01:11. > :01:14.gets prime attention - at the Golden Globes.
:01:15. > :01:17.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:
:01:18. > :01:19.The Best Manager in the World -
:01:20. > :01:22.Claudio Ranieri is honoured by Fifa for taking Leicester
:01:23. > :01:49.An honest discussion is needed - about the way people use accident
:01:50. > :01:52.and emergency departments - in England's hospitals.
:01:53. > :01:55.That's the message from Jeremy Hunt - the Health Secretary -
:01:56. > :01:57.as hospitals report unprecendented demand -
:01:58. > :02:03.He's also suggested that patients with less serious problems -
:02:04. > :02:05.might no longer be covered by a commitment to be
:02:06. > :02:12.But he has denied suggestions - from the Red Cross -
:02:13. > :02:14.that the NHS is facing a humanitarian crisis.
:02:15. > :02:19.Our health editor Hugh Pym has the latest.
:02:20. > :02:25.Whatever the intense pressure on the NHS there's a commitment for
:02:26. > :02:29.hospitals to assess or treat almost all patients within four hours of
:02:30. > :02:33.arriving at A But at a time when the service in England is creaking
:02:34. > :02:38.under the strain that's been thrown into doubt. Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
:02:39. > :02:41.The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt surprised MPs by claiming that
:02:42. > :02:46.people going to A without good reason were undermining the target.
:02:47. > :02:50.It is clear we need to have an honest discussion with the public
:02:51. > :02:55.about the purpose above stomach about stomach of A departments.
:02:56. > :02:59.There is nowhere else outside the UK that commits to all patients that we
:03:00. > :03:05.will sort out any health need within four hours. With NHS England
:03:06. > :03:10.estimating that nearly a third of people using A don't need to be
:03:11. > :03:14.there Mr Hunt hinted the four our target could be restricted.
:03:15. > :03:19.If we are going to protect our four our standard it needs to be made to
:03:20. > :03:24.kneel we will sort out urgent health problems within four hours but not
:03:25. > :03:28.all health problems, however minor. Labour argued this could mean a
:03:29. > :03:32.vital pledged to patients was being watered down. Is he now really
:03:33. > :03:37.telling patients that rather than trying to hit the four hour target
:03:38. > :03:41.the government is now in fact rewriting and downgrading its? If
:03:42. > :03:47.so, does NHS England support this move? Part of the Government's
:03:48. > :03:51.thinking is to try to stop people going to A in the first place if
:03:52. > :03:55.they are not seriously ill. Medical leaders say there has been tried for
:03:56. > :04:00.years without success. Despite all that educational attempts for the
:04:01. > :04:04.last 20 years attendances have only risen. I think what we need is
:04:05. > :04:10.better designed systems and education to send patients away,
:04:11. > :04:15.unfortunately from a historical perspective, not going to work. The
:04:16. > :04:19.four hour waiting time targets in A is 95% of patients should be
:04:20. > :04:24.treated in that time. Anything above the black line so shows the target
:04:25. > :04:27.in England being missed. It has been happening consistently in the last
:04:28. > :04:31.couple of years. The latest debate over targets comes
:04:32. > :04:37.days after the Red Cross said there was a humanitarian crisis in the NHS
:04:38. > :04:41.and social care, a claim rejected by the government. Mr Hunt's comments
:04:42. > :04:44.have caused some confusion tonight. The Department of Health has
:04:45. > :04:49.stressed there are no plans to drop the four hour waiting time target
:04:50. > :04:52.but it has left open the possibility of alterations. It's hard to see,
:04:53. > :04:56.though, how changing the target system will make any difference to
:04:57. > :05:00.the underlying realities. Patient numbers rising faster than available
:05:01. > :05:01.resources and hospitals under extreme pressure. Hugh Pym, BBC
:05:02. > :05:03.News. The Prime Minister acknowledged
:05:04. > :05:06.the pressures on the NHS - when she set out some
:05:07. > :05:08.of her priorities for the year ahead in her first
:05:09. > :05:10.policy speech of 2017. Theresa May set out measures
:05:11. > :05:13.to improve mental health services in England -
:05:14. > :05:15.and said she wanted government to play its part in creating
:05:16. > :05:18.what she called a shared society. Labour says she's confronting
:05:19. > :05:20.the effects of six years of her own party's policies -
:05:21. > :05:22.as our political editor Six months since she walked
:05:23. > :05:28.into the famous street. Six months since she's
:05:29. > :05:32.been your Prime Minister. But piecing together
:05:33. > :05:34.what Theresa May But today she made clear she
:05:35. > :05:44.believes for millions life doesn't feel fair and her government can
:05:45. > :05:48.be part of the answer. When you see others
:05:49. > :05:50.prospering while you are not. When you try to raise your concerns
:05:51. > :05:53.but they fall on deaf ears. When you feel your very
:05:54. > :05:55.identity, all that For we know what happens
:05:56. > :06:05.when mainstream centre The politics of
:06:06. > :06:14.division and despair. They turn to those who
:06:15. > :06:17.offer easy answers, who claim to understand people's
:06:18. > :06:19.problems and always know what and It is to show that mainstream
:06:20. > :06:24.centre ground politics A plain attempt to appeal
:06:25. > :06:29.to Middle England. But David Cameron's dream
:06:30. > :06:41.of a Big Society is gone. The shared society
:06:42. > :06:54.is one that doesn't just value our individual rights
:06:55. > :06:57.but focuses rather more on the responsibilities we
:06:58. > :06:58.have to one another. It's a society that respects
:06:59. > :07:01.the bonds that we share, as The bonds of family, community,
:07:02. > :07:04.citizenship and strong institutions. And government will step up
:07:05. > :07:08.to support and, where necessary, enforce the responsibilities we have
:07:09. > :07:13.to each other as citizens. But although there
:07:14. > :07:15.were promises of more help for housing in weeks
:07:16. > :07:21.to come, controversial plans for schools,
:07:22. > :07:23.the only new commitments today Made with passion but no
:07:24. > :07:33.extra taxpayers' cash. For too long mental illness has been
:07:34. > :07:36.something of a hidden Shrouded in a completely
:07:37. > :07:40.unacceptable stigma and dangerously disregarded
:07:41. > :07:41.as a secondary issue Yet, left unaddressed it destroys
:07:42. > :07:49.lives, separates people from each other, and deepens the divisions
:07:50. > :07:52.within our society. But as with all prime
:07:53. > :07:56.ministers, whatever they say on the steps here or anywhere else
:07:57. > :07:59.quickly rubs up with reality. But Theresa May has
:08:00. > :08:04.an extra dilemma. As she starts to manage the most
:08:05. > :08:07.complicated project any leader has faced in decades, there
:08:08. > :08:09.is a risk her government becomes simply consumed with how we leave
:08:10. > :08:11.the European Union and her political enemies
:08:12. > :08:15.say her words ring hollow. If only we could believe
:08:16. > :08:21.that she actually meant it. She's been part of a government
:08:22. > :08:24.now for the last six years which has cut back
:08:25. > :08:30.on public expenditure, And she's making the speeches
:08:31. > :08:36.about shared society with a on trolleys waiting for care in our
:08:37. > :08:39.hospitals. So I think there is
:08:40. > :08:41.a credibility gap here. It's only six months,
:08:42. > :08:44.but those days of summer Few prime ministers
:08:45. > :08:49.in the end choose how Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
:08:50. > :08:53.News, Westminster. The Prime Minister's decision
:08:54. > :08:57.to highlight the issue of mental health was broadly welcomed
:08:58. > :09:00.by charities - although some experts pointed out that money
:09:01. > :09:03.which had already been promised - Our health correspondent
:09:04. > :09:07.Elaine Dunkley has this assessment It's been nearly two years since
:09:08. > :09:13.Steve Mallon's son took his own life after a short and severe
:09:14. > :09:18.episode of depression. Today, visiting his
:09:19. > :09:22.grave, he could reflect on a personal campaign to get
:09:23. > :09:25.politicians to take mental health A coroner ruled that Edward Mallon,
:09:26. > :09:32.who was 18, was let I stood next to my son in this
:09:33. > :09:36.church and I made him a promise and the promise was that
:09:37. > :09:39.I would investigate his tragic and And at the same time also
:09:40. > :09:44.investigate the whole mental Like many people
:09:45. > :09:47.I didn't know a great deal about mental health prior
:09:48. > :09:50.to this appalling tragedy. And when you look at
:09:51. > :09:58.what has happened in this country and the current state
:09:59. > :10:00.of affairs it really is an To see the Prime Minister
:10:01. > :10:04.come forward now is really quite significant
:10:05. > :10:05.and very welcome. One of the Prime Minister's
:10:06. > :10:07.key messages is that mental health is a
:10:08. > :10:10.challenge for the whole of society
:10:11. > :10:12.and not just the NHS. Schools will play a bigger role
:10:13. > :10:14.in helping pupils dealing with problems before they
:10:15. > :10:18.reach crisis point. Schools like this one
:10:19. > :10:23.in Hertfordshire already employ a therapist and train sixth formers
:10:24. > :10:26.as mental health mentors looking out for fellow students
:10:27. > :10:28.who may be struggling. Sort of like relationships
:10:29. > :10:29.with friends, but it's The school has welcomed
:10:30. > :10:38.the promise of more training for staff in mental health
:10:39. > :10:40.awareness, but says more resources In order for other schools
:10:41. > :10:44.to pick up and do something similar to us and have in-house
:10:45. > :10:46.therapists or counsellors there needs to be funding,
:10:47. > :10:48.especially if staff are going to be expected
:10:49. > :10:49.to The question then is
:10:50. > :10:54.what do you do with You need to do something
:10:55. > :10:58.with them immediately. The Prime Minister has
:10:59. > :10:59.outlined her commitment. But the reality is that
:11:00. > :11:01.mental health trusts in England are under
:11:02. > :11:04.serious financial pressure. Analysis by The King's Fund
:11:05. > :11:07.think tank found 40% of the 58 trusts saw budget cuts
:11:08. > :11:18.in the last financial year. Six were cut three years
:11:19. > :11:21.in a row and 63% of mental health trust leaders thought
:11:22. > :11:24.they would miss out on the full NHS spending increases
:11:25. > :11:25.which have been pledged. It's very worrying because we've had
:11:26. > :11:30.a number of commitments in the past around increasing spend
:11:31. > :11:32.on mental health but that doesn't seem to be then translated
:11:33. > :11:34.into extra It's great having ministers
:11:35. > :11:40.make commitments to mental health but if it's
:11:41. > :11:42.then not translated into extra spend then,
:11:43. > :11:43.to be frank, the commitments
:11:44. > :11:46.are worthless. For the Mallon family,
:11:47. > :11:50.today is an important step on a journey leading towards high-quality
:11:51. > :11:52.mental health care and fewer tragic But Steve says his campaign
:11:53. > :11:57.is far from over. And there is still much
:11:58. > :12:00.more work to be done. Our political editor
:12:01. > :12:13.Laura Kuenssberg is here. What has today's speech by the Prime
:12:14. > :12:16.Minister told us about her ambitions for the year ahead? There is a new
:12:17. > :12:19.mantra, this phrase the shared society, but there was no dramatic
:12:20. > :12:23.departure either Prime Minister today, no dramatic measures in her
:12:24. > :12:27.plans for mental health. It was the beginning of what her team describe
:12:28. > :12:31.as a lot of activity in the coming weeks and a very deliberate effort
:12:32. > :12:35.to show that No 10 under her charge will not, they hope, be completely
:12:36. > :12:39.consumed by trying to get us out of the European Union. She is
:12:40. > :12:44.determined to try to do things to intervene in the country to try to
:12:45. > :12:48.make society fairer for everybody. As that rather unflashy speech
:12:49. > :12:52.progressed, a drama in the NHS in England appeared to be unfolding
:12:53. > :12:56.with Health Secretary speaking as he did in the House of Commons. The
:12:57. > :13:01.Tories struggled for years all the time through David Cameron's
:13:02. > :13:05.leadership while he was in charge to detoxify their reputation when it
:13:06. > :13:08.comes to the National Health Service. There is significant strain
:13:09. > :13:13.on the health service, nobody can argue with that and Jeremy Hunt
:13:14. > :13:16.admitted that today. With that comes a significant political risk and the
:13:17. > :13:21.idea of a shared society might not get that far if what so many people
:13:22. > :13:25.are experiencing in sharing their experiences in the NHS are
:13:26. > :13:26.increasingly dire as the months go on. Laura Kuenssberg, thank you very
:13:27. > :13:28.much. The political crisis
:13:29. > :13:30.in Northern Ireland has deepened - with the resignation
:13:31. > :13:32.of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister -
:13:33. > :13:35.raising the prospect of new Assembly elections - just seven months
:13:36. > :13:37.after the last ones. The crisis was prompted
:13:38. > :13:39.mainly by the mishandling of a controversial energy scheme -
:13:40. > :13:42.which has cost hundreds of millions Sinn Fein blamed
:13:43. > :13:48.the First Minister - the DUP's Arlene Foster -
:13:49. > :13:50.for the problems and wanted her to step aside
:13:51. > :13:53.while an investigation took place. Our correspondent Nicholas Witchell
:13:54. > :14:03.reports from Belfast. It was the most improbable of
:14:04. > :14:07.alliances. The party which was the political face of the provisional
:14:08. > :14:13.IRA sitting down and working with the party of hardline unionism then
:14:14. > :14:15.led by The Reverend Ian Paisley. Yet for ten years the power-sharing
:14:16. > :14:21.government at Stormont has brought peace stability to Northern Ireland.
:14:22. > :14:26.Now it is on the brink of collapse and ostensibly it's all over heating
:14:27. > :14:31.scheme. Martin McGuinness, the IRA man who turned to politics and
:14:32. > :14:34.became Deputy First Minister, is in very poor health. He's had enough of
:14:35. > :14:42.what he calls the arrogance of deep Democratic Unionists. I have
:14:43. > :14:47.tendered my resignation effective from five o'clock today. -- the
:14:48. > :14:52.Democratic Unionist. I believe now is the time to call a halt to the
:14:53. > :14:56.DUP's arrogance. So, what is it that threatens to wreck a decade of
:14:57. > :15:00.political progress? It's something called the renewable heat incentive
:15:01. > :15:04.scheme. Suffice it to say it's likely to cost the Northern Ireland
:15:05. > :15:10.taxpayer ?500 million more than expected. The minister who set up
:15:11. > :15:15.the scheme was Arlene Foster. Now DUP leader and First Minister of
:15:16. > :15:19.Northern Ireland. Tonight, via social media, she responded to Mr
:15:20. > :15:22.McGuinness's departure. I am, of course, disappointed Martin
:15:23. > :15:27.McGuinness has chosen to take the position he has today. His actions
:15:28. > :15:30.have meant that at precisely the time when we need our government is
:15:31. > :15:35.to be active we will have no government.
:15:36. > :15:39.Martin McGuinness's resignation by possibly brings to an end the career
:15:40. > :15:44.of a man who was once a committed and active republican paramilitary.
:15:45. > :15:49.In the 1970s he was second in command of the IRA in Derry. Can you
:15:50. > :15:56.say whether the bombing is likely to stop in the near future in response
:15:57. > :15:59.to any public demand? Well, we will always take on the considerations
:16:00. > :16:02.and feelings of people of Derry and these feelings will be passed on to
:16:03. > :16:07.the HQ in Dublin. The man who helped to lead the IRA
:16:08. > :16:10.to violence ultimately help to bring Northern Ireland to peace. He
:16:11. > :16:13.recognised that there could never be a so-called military victory in
:16:14. > :16:17.Northern Ireland and something that had seemed inconceivable became a
:16:18. > :16:21.reality. Republicans and Unionists found that they could work together.
:16:22. > :16:29.Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley got on so well they were nicknamed
:16:30. > :16:32.the chuckle Brothers. But in recent times the atmosphere has soured.
:16:33. > :16:37.There have been disagreements on a number of issues. Now the way
:16:38. > :16:40.forward is uncertain. Under the power-sharing system the first and
:16:41. > :16:46.Deputy First Ministers have to work together. If one resigns the other
:16:47. > :16:49.cannot continue. In effect, the political institutions have
:16:50. > :16:52.collapsed. For year after year many people here in Northern Ireland and
:16:53. > :16:57.elsewhere have marvelled at what political leaders here have achieved
:16:58. > :17:00.in the past decade. Those achievements are in jeopardy now and
:17:01. > :17:04.it's not, as might have been expected, over a constitutional
:17:05. > :17:11.issue or a security crisis, it's over a heating scheme. Political
:17:12. > :17:14.leaders here have overcome so many problems. But if they cannot find a
:17:15. > :17:19.solution to this in the next seven days, there will have to be
:17:20. > :17:20.elections to a new Northern Ireland Assembly. Nicholas Witchell, BBC
:17:21. > :17:23.News, Belfast. Our Northern Ireland political
:17:24. > :17:25.editor Mark Devenport How serious a threat is this
:17:26. > :17:39.to political stability Is this sequence of events?
:17:40. > :17:43.Undoubtably the most serious threat to storm and since the government
:17:44. > :17:48.was able to piece together devolution under the dominant
:17:49. > :17:52.parties of the DUP and Sinn Fein. Over this green energy scandal
:17:53. > :17:56.they've very quickly run out of road and whilst the government wants to
:17:57. > :17:59.try to avoid a fresh election, it seems tonight there will be no way
:18:00. > :18:05.they can do that. Once they have the election, if things, as seems
:18:06. > :18:08.likely, that two main players will be facing each other again across
:18:09. > :18:12.the table, but it will be hard to know how they can piece things
:18:13. > :18:16.together. Not only this deep rift over this heating scandal but a
:18:17. > :18:23.whole other issues on which Sinn Fein believes they've been treated
:18:24. > :18:26.as second-class citizens by their partners in government. Difficult
:18:27. > :18:28.terrain here instrument. Thank you for bringing us up to date. Mark
:18:29. > :18:29.Davenport at Stormont. A brief look at some of the day's
:18:30. > :18:32.other other news stories: Millions of commuters in London have
:18:33. > :18:35.been struggling to get to and from work
:18:36. > :18:37.because of a strike, forcing the closure of large
:18:38. > :18:39.parts of the underground system. Members of two unions have been
:18:40. > :18:41.staging a 24-hour walk-out in protest at job cuts
:18:42. > :18:51.and the closure of ticket offices. The pound sterling has
:18:52. > :18:53.fallen to its lowest level The pound dropped by 1% against both
:18:54. > :18:58.the Euro and the US dollar. Many analysts linked it
:18:59. > :19:00.to Theresa May's apparent suggestion yesterday,
:19:01. > :19:01.that the UK would withdraw from the single market
:19:02. > :19:05.when it left the EU. Scotland's First Minister,
:19:06. > :19:07.Nicola Sturgeon, has made clear that a second referendum on independence
:19:08. > :19:11.won't be held this year. The Scottish government has drafted
:19:12. > :19:16.legislation for a referendum, after Ms Sturgeon said the UK voting
:19:17. > :19:19.to leave the EU made another President Obama will deliver his
:19:20. > :19:27.farewell address in the city of Chicago tomorrow -
:19:28. > :19:30.the city where he claimed victory 8 years ago -
:19:31. > :19:33.in the historic election which put the first African-American
:19:34. > :19:34.in the White House. But as his second term comes
:19:35. > :19:38.to a close what will his legacy be? In the first of two reports looking
:19:39. > :19:41.back at his time in office, our North America editor Jon Sopel
:19:42. > :19:44.looks at the domestic issues, which have defined
:19:45. > :19:47.the Obama presidency. It wasn't just the hope
:19:48. > :19:53.when Barack Obama came to office, That the country's problems
:19:54. > :20:01.would be solved at a stroke, that the first African-American
:20:02. > :20:03.president would usher No more black America
:20:04. > :20:11.or white America, But the lingering vestiges
:20:12. > :20:15.of that dream disappeared in the summer of 2014,
:20:16. > :20:19.in clouds of tear gas, in a nondescript suburb of St Louis,
:20:20. > :20:22.Missouri, called Ferguson. An unarmed black man had been shot
:20:23. > :20:26.by a white police officer. It was a pattern that
:20:27. > :20:29.would become all too familiar. In Charleston, South Carolina,
:20:30. > :20:32.Walter Scott had been pulled over Footage captures the
:20:33. > :20:42.white police officer who stopped him, shooting him
:20:43. > :20:45.in the back several times At his trial, which ended
:20:46. > :20:50.last month, the jury The court, therefore,
:20:51. > :20:54.must declare a mistrial... Another symbol for the
:20:55. > :20:56.black community that I think his legacy to him is more
:20:57. > :21:00.important right now, to paint a picture that he did
:21:01. > :21:07.a real good job in America. But most black folks are very
:21:08. > :21:09.disappointed, because we feel The issue of race and another
:21:10. > :21:18.of America's great intractable social problems, gun violence,
:21:19. > :21:21.came together in horrific effect inside this famous African-American
:21:22. > :21:28.church in Charleston. A white supremacist who,
:21:29. > :21:31.with his string of drug convictions, should never have been able
:21:32. > :21:34.to purchase a gun, walked inside a Bible study group
:21:35. > :21:36.and killed eight worshippers Barack Obama had always seemed
:21:37. > :21:43.reluctant to define himself as a black president,
:21:44. > :21:47.preoccupied by racial issues, but after these shootings that
:21:48. > :21:51.changed, as he came to Charleston and showed how he felt
:21:52. > :21:57.the community's pain. SINGING: # Amazing grace,
:21:58. > :22:09.how sweet the sound, Obama's two terms
:22:10. > :22:16.in office were punctuated You've dialled 911, what's
:22:17. > :22:21.the location of your emergency? ...I think there's
:22:22. > :22:23.somebody shooting here. Then a series of random mass
:22:24. > :22:26.killings that started with the slaying of 20 children
:22:27. > :22:29.and six of their teachers that The President's famously cool
:22:30. > :22:40.demeanour was gone after this. Every time I think about those
:22:41. > :22:44.kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens
:22:45. > :22:47.on the streets of Chicago every day. I refuse to act as if this
:22:48. > :22:50.is the new normal. This is not something
:22:51. > :22:53.I can do by myself. Such violence, such
:22:54. > :22:56.evil, is senseless. Again and again he wanted tougher
:22:57. > :23:00.legislation on gun-control. But he failed, to his
:23:01. > :23:05.evident consternation If you ask me where has been the one
:23:06. > :23:14.area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied,
:23:15. > :23:20.it is the fact that the United States of America is the one
:23:21. > :23:24.advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient
:23:25. > :23:30.common sense gun safety laws. But there have been some
:23:31. > :23:33.legislative successes. Millions more Americans now
:23:34. > :23:37.have health insurance than was previously the case,
:23:38. > :23:39.although Obamacare has And the economy, which was flat
:23:40. > :23:44.on its back eight years ago, is starting to boom,
:23:45. > :23:46.and people are spending We have not just come back stronger
:23:47. > :23:55.from the great recession, we have actually built an economy
:23:56. > :23:59.that's the envy of the world. That is an important part
:24:00. > :24:05.of President Obama's legacy. But it proved to be a voterless
:24:06. > :24:09.recovery where it mattered. They'll be no Democrat
:24:10. > :24:12.succeeding him in the White House, and so, one of his final acts
:24:13. > :24:15.was to make a last journey to Capitol Hill, to urge his party's
:24:16. > :24:19.lawmakers to fight off Republican attempts to dismantle Obamacare,
:24:20. > :24:23.and the rest of his domestic legacy. Hundreds of local newspapers
:24:24. > :24:34.could be forced to close, if new proposals on press
:24:35. > :24:37.regulation become law. That's been the warning
:24:38. > :24:39.from editors during a public consultation on how newspapers
:24:40. > :24:41.should be regulated. Change is essential,
:24:42. > :24:45.according to victims of press intrusion,
:24:46. > :24:47.but newspaper editors say the Our media editor Amol
:24:48. > :24:55.Rajan has the story. Britain has had robust and raucous
:24:56. > :25:01.newspapers free of state control for more than 300 years,
:25:02. > :25:04.but now the majority of the industry believes that a form of government
:25:05. > :25:08.interference is set to return. Ian Murray is the editor in chief
:25:09. > :25:11.of the Southern Daily Echo and other titles on the south
:25:12. > :25:13.coast of England. We've got files that goes
:25:14. > :25:16.back to 1776, the time Like many editors,
:25:17. > :25:20.he fears centuries of press This is a principle,
:25:21. > :25:27.the principle of free speech - a free press, which has existed
:25:28. > :25:35.for 300 years. This paper was founded,
:25:36. > :25:38.as a weekly paper, in 1823, and those founders would be
:25:39. > :25:40.absolutely horrified to think that we were now being bullied,
:25:41. > :25:43.bullied by the state to giving up the freedom that they
:25:44. > :25:44.basically founded. Their concern is over new proposals
:25:45. > :25:49.for press regulation. At the heart of it is Section 40
:25:50. > :25:52.of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. This says newspapers
:25:53. > :25:54.would have to pay legal costs of anybody who sues them,
:25:55. > :25:56.unless the newspaper joins But editors fear that any such
:25:57. > :26:01.body would ultimately be It's getting harder for newspapers
:26:02. > :26:07.to keep the presses rolling, but while Bob Battle for press
:26:08. > :26:11.freedom is often cast as a fight between big newspaper tycoons
:26:12. > :26:13.and victims of newspaper mischief, there are hundreds of publications
:26:14. > :26:19.who see this legislation as a threat One publication that knows
:26:20. > :26:26.all about legal action is the satirical magazine,
:26:27. > :26:29.Private Eye. Its editor believes
:26:30. > :26:31.Section 40 would be fatal I mean it is completely
:26:32. > :26:38.mad, as a proposition. Anyone looking at it from outside
:26:39. > :26:41.would think, what is this about? I mean dictators will love it,
:26:42. > :26:44.it will be very popular in Turkey. I'm sure Syria will incorporate it
:26:45. > :26:48.any day now, but really it is a punitive attack
:26:49. > :26:52.on the freedom of the press. This proposal came out of
:26:53. > :26:55.the Leveson Inquiry five years ago. Madeleine McCann's family gave
:26:56. > :26:58.evidence, so did the parents And the businessman Max Mosley,
:26:59. > :27:03.whose private life was exposed Mr Mosley's family
:27:04. > :27:08.trust is now funding We need this new Section 40,
:27:09. > :27:18.to give access to justice. The problem at the moment
:27:19. > :27:20.is unless you're rich, if you are turned over by a big
:27:21. > :27:23.newspaper, there's nothing you can do, because the lawyers say to you,
:27:24. > :27:26.well, you have a good case, you can sue, but you do
:27:27. > :27:29.realise if you lose, we don't think you will lose,
:27:30. > :27:32.but if you do lose it will be Protesters today calling
:27:33. > :27:39.for tighter regulation. But the newspapers are digging
:27:40. > :27:42.in for a bitter fight and Leveson's recommendations,
:27:43. > :27:45.which aimed to bring back trust, are still causing division
:27:46. > :27:48.nearly five years on. The Golden Globes ceremony
:27:49. > :27:57.in Los Angeles became a platform for some of Hollywood's biggest
:27:58. > :28:00.names to criticise the policies and attitudes of Donald Trump,
:28:01. > :28:02.though the President-elect was not Meryl Streep attacked
:28:03. > :28:07.Mr Trump's actions in mocking a disabled reporter
:28:08. > :28:10.during the election campaign, but the three-time Oscar
:28:11. > :28:12.winner was later dismissed James Cook reports on the winners
:28:13. > :28:20.on and off the stage. Nowhere is more horrified
:28:21. > :28:24.by the election of Donald Trump than the liberal bastion
:28:25. > :28:27.of Hollywood, and no one commands Receiving a Lifetime Achievement
:28:28. > :28:32.Award, the actress spoke for many of her peers
:28:33. > :28:48.when she delivered an impassioned There was one performance this year
:28:49. > :28:53.that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. It was that moment when
:28:54. > :28:59.the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country
:29:00. > :29:03.imitated a disabled reporter, someone he out ranked in privilege,
:29:04. > :29:14.power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart. The
:29:15. > :29:19.poor guy, you should see this guy, I don't know what I said, I don't
:29:20. > :29:23.remember. Mr Trump denied mocking the reporter's disability and went
:29:24. > :29:39.to twitter. A British invasion, and what could
:29:40. > :29:40.be more British than playing the Queen?
:29:41. > :29:44.She has been at the centre of the world for the past 63 years,
:29:45. > :29:47.and I think the world could do with a few more women at the centre
:29:48. > :30:06.Won three awards. I did not expect to win a Golden Globe tonight, and I
:30:07. > :30:10.was sat next to Hugh Laurie when he won and I thought, I can go home
:30:11. > :30:18.happy. Then when it came to my category, up against some real
:30:19. > :30:23.legends. Coming of age movie moonlight had been tipped to win
:30:24. > :30:26.quite a few but won just one, Best drama. But the biggest was...
:30:27. > :30:31.There were a record seven Golden Globes for the old-fashioned
:30:32. > :30:33.musical, with both Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone waltzing
:30:34. > :30:41.This is a film for dreamers, and I think that hope and creativity
:30:42. > :30:44.are two of the most important things of the world, and that's
:30:45. > :30:51.Well, Hollywood can be fun and frivolous, but it also prides
:30:52. > :30:54.itself on tackling serious subjects, and many stars here on the red
:30:55. > :30:57.carpet are predicting a surge in political films this year,
:30:58. > :30:58.following the most divisive of elections.
:30:59. > :31:05.James Cook, BBC News, at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles.
:31:06. > :31:11.A quick reminder Newsnight is about to begin on BBC Two.
:31:12. > :31:14.Tonight: Can a Prime Minister ever define her own legacy?
:31:15. > :31:20.Theresa May set out the soul of her premiership today.
:31:21. > :31:23.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.